I was hooked when I read the first sentence on the DOSSIE-A website. “I believe that each person’s story is truly unique.” I couldn’t agree more. My favorite parts of any wedding, from a backyard affair to an event held in a stately ballroom, are the small details that show what makes the couple unique… what makes them them.
Jessica at DOSSIE-A Special Events Stationery is determined to show that the invitation suite is the first step in telling your unique love story. It’s the first thing guests will see and it sets the entire tone of the event. We all know this – it’s what gets everyone excited! DOSSIE-A customizes their stationery to complement their couples’ personalities. In an effort to never let your invitation suite feel mass produced, DOSSIE-A creates one-of-a-kind designs with the finest materials. These invitations alone will have your guests counting down the days until your nuptials!
Win: 50 invitations with blank mailing envelopes from DOSSIE-A Special Events Stationery. This includes offset printing on Howard, warm white, linen finish paper, 80lb cover + matching envelope and of course a one-of-a-kind, personalized design for your event!
To Enter: We want to know what makes you and your significant other different. Do you share a desire to live in the Outback? Did you meet while attending a stamp collecting convention? Leave a comment telling us what makes you unique for a chance to win!
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First, I believe my fiance is truly unique because he has been a volunteer fire fighter for 10 years (and he’s only 26!). When people here the word volunteer in front of firefighter they automatically assume its not the same thing as a "real" firefighter. Make no mistake about it these men and women are very much "real firefighters". The only difference between career firefighters and volunteer firefighters is that career firefighters stay at the station and wait to be called. Volunteers are normal people with normal jobs who go about their everyday lives, but when the pager goes off those men and women drop WHATEVER they are doing and get the to the station to get on the truck. Did you know that there are more fire stations in the US that are volunteer? They are trained to the national standards and don’t get paid to do the job. I think this in itself makes them "real" firefighters, they go above and beyond a job and are willing to help anyone in need without it being their job.I believe Josh and I are special because it take a certain person to accept the fact that the pager will always go off when there is yard work to be done, it will interrupt romantic moments, and he will always jump up to put shoes on when it goes off. I love Josh more than anything and I love and respect the fact that he has a servants heart and will be a volunteer firefighter for many many years to come. Though moments may be interrupted I believe what my future husband does voluntarily is completely worth it.
Cole Buchanan & Ian Jacobs, Why we’re different: Met in the Mountains, Moved to the City, Married in the South.Met in the Mountains…After college I decided on somewhat of a whim to move to the small ski town of Crested Butte, CO. The driver my family and I hired to move me in just so happened to be Ian Jacobs. He had the approval of the family right away. We fell in love in one of the most beautiful places in the world living the ski bum life.Moved to the City…Ian received a job offer in Chicago, IL and we decided to pack up our things and move from a town of 1,600 people to a city of almost 2.9 million. Talk about culture shock!Married in the South…A true southern girl must always go back to her roots. We are getting married in Atlanta, GA on April 9, 2011.It isn’t one thing that makes us different; it’s the fact that we enjoy so many different places and will always live life to the fullest no matter where we end up. But, my bet would be on the mountains. :)
When do you ever get to see a Logger marry a C.P.A.? That is why we are unique.
We are unique because we have literally known each other since birth, but did not connect until college. At the video of his birth, you can see my mom pregnant with me in the background. I have a photo of us in a double stroller that just makes me beam. Our lives went different ways until college. We became friendly through friends in common and soon became best friends. I dated other guys, but in the back of my head always had a thing for him. We started dating our senior of college, both moved to Washington, D.C. and got engaged! Now our wedding is in a couple of months!
Short story of how we met: Two strangers met on a plane, went on a first date two weeks later, quickly fell in love, endured a long-distance relationship, and are now engaged to be married. Longer, but much better, story: On Sunday, September 21, 2008, two strangers boarded a Delta Airlines flight headed from Phoenix, AZ to Atlanta, GA. As they found their seats and prayed for a safe flight, little did they know God was already planning something much greater. After getting settled at their seats, the charming southern gentleman greeted the lovely lady seated next to him. As the small talk began, the plane took off, and the conversation kept flowing the whole way home. The two discovered they were from the same hometown, attended the same middle and high schools, were alumni of the same University, and the guy even went to the elementary school where her mother currently teaches. It was like they were living the same life for years, but were minutes or steps away from meeting each other the whole time. Two weeks later, after reconnecting on Facebook, they two seatmates went on a first date and quickly fell in love. A few months after that, the girl moved to Chicago, IL to further her career; however, it was no question that the two would whole-heartedly commit to a long-distance relationship. Thousands of sky miles later, and a year of long-distance behind them, the boy proposed to the girl while on vacation on Bald Head Island, NC over Memorial Day weekend (with a professional photographer in tow), and she happily and enthusiastically said YES! The happy couple will finally be living in the same city, Atlanta, GA, starting at the beginning of the new year, and are thrilled to be getting married on June 4, 2011 in Atlanta, GA. Let’s just say, it was certainly LOVE AT FIRST FLIGHT!
My fiance and I are unique because we met while we were both working at a football camp. I was photographing a story about the team for the local newspaper and he was a coach. We drove from southwest Florida to West Virginia. We talked the whole week. I was the only woman there with about 75 guys. And we’ve been traveling together ever since…….Seattle, Vancouver, Maine, the NC mountains. Every year we go to the NC mountains, too. It’s where we got engaged and where we are getting married in April 2011.
My fiance and I are unique because we are two computer nerds that meet at work! We spend time together on our laptops infront of the tv :)
My fiance and I are unique in that we met on the internet. But it wasn’t via a dating site or even by sharing a friend on a social media site. Nor was it on purpose. We had both joined an art website based out of Australia (Red Bubble), I – living in Tucson at the time – to upload my photography and a few pieces I had written, him – born and raised and residing in New York City – to share his poetry after much cajoling from a friend. Early February 2008, I came across one of his poems and left a witty comment complimenting it, he replied in kind. A few days later, he wrote a poem for one of my pictures, leaving it as a comment. Before I realized he had written it, he emailed me asking if I had liked the poem and I had to sheepishly admit that I hadn’t seen it, but promptly remedied the situation. Over the course of the next month, and on one night in particular, we wrote a total of 52 poems back and forth telling each other about our lives through elaborate imagery, similes, rhymes and flowing, free-form prose. There wasn’t anything we weren’t comfortable sharing. Finally, the end of February rolled around and he picked up the nerve to call me.The rest happened so quickly. He announced he had bought a plane ticket to come out and meet me in Arizona, that he would be there in a week (also that he was 33 and I was 20 at the time became an issue). I could pick him up at the airport or leave him to enjoy a solo vacation and we would go our separate ways. There was no way I couldn’t meet the man (who I still hadn’t seen a picture of) who wrapped my heart and soul in free, unremitting love, so of course I did the only sensible thing: I drove by to see what he looked like before I picked him up the second go-around. Lucky for me, he wasn’t hard to spot wearing dark designer jeans, a newsboy cap on his head, and holding a stylish sport coat over one arm. In the desert. Instead of taking him to a local hotel for the weekend, I decided as soon as he stepped into the car and stroked my hair, love and awe pouring out of his deep eyes, that we would be going to Sedona. It was a 4-5 hour drive (at night) from Tucson, but it was worth it to see the look on his face in the morning when the red rocks lit up right outside our room. The next three days were spent in utter bliss and that new love excitement radiated from both of us. We had people asking us how long we’d been together, him replying with a joke "what time is it?" He bought me a little Native American fetish horse made of turquoise before we left, and the ride back to the airport was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to endure. Needless to say, I ended up packing up and moving in with him after a month and we lived in New York City for a year and a half together before moving back to Arizona, where we live now (though in Phoenix). March 4th of this year, we stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast up in Sedona for our two-year anniversary, where he asked me to marry him with a simple white-gold band with two yellow pearls. It’s been a perfectly wonderful journey thus far, filled with many surprises and lots of growing, and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
I’d say that fiance in I are different in so many ways because I’m the serious, type A, and he is the easy-going, go with the flow kind of guy. We were high school sweethearts and started dating at the end of our Junior Year… our differences came out when we came to college…Kevin likes to go out and have a beer… I like to shop…. Kev likes to sleep in late on the weekends… I like to wake up early and get things done (who doesn’t?)Our differences and (and similarities) came out the night of our engagement. Hitting the 6 year mark… I wanted my ring and kept asking…. he had the ring and didn’t tell me. Moments, before he proposed… I flat out asked if he could just do it at our fav restaurant (mexican food) with the mariachi band and a margarita… I wanted it now (type a personality)…. he already had that planned word for word.Our differences…. make us perfect :)
My fiance and I are unique because we have watched every episode of 24 together.
My fiance and I are unique because we are so alike. Not only do we have little things in common (favorite bands, tv shows, hobbies), but we have quite a few very strange things in common. We met while attending college and quickly became friends. Within the first week of knowing each other, he told me about his crush and I told him of mine, though we never revealed names. The next day, I explained to him that i was "heartbroken" because I saw my crush holding hands with a girl. He then told me he, too, had just found out that his crush had a boyfriend. It didn’t take long to discover our crushes were dating. :) of course, it went the 90’s movie route and we devised an evil plan to split them up… a plan that, obviously, never came to fruition. Scheming together really has the power to make you fall in love though.After dating just a short while, we realized a lot of other coincidences. We both have grandfathers named Dick. We were both adopted. My middle name is Dawn and his is Wade, and he has an uncle Wade who is married to a woman named Dawn. His family church is New Harmony Baptist Church, and mine is Harmony Baptist Church. Probably the biggest coincidence is that we’re both getting married on May 21, 2011. :)
"The listing of the Differents" or as I like to say "What makes us. . .us":– Marathons of dirty jobs are a must with us-Forget the Friday night clubbing, a drive through the country, just to catch the perfect sunset, is more our speed– He owns more shoes than I do, which is saying something, cause I am a Carrie Bradshaw wannabee – Classical music and the swing era are far more likely to be heard on our Ipods than the top 20, yes we are 40 year olds trapped in 20 year old bodies. – we spent childhood summers at the same beach, and never met until college. – Beach vacation? no no, give us a trip to the Mountains any day. – I love just jelly sandwiches, He loves just Peanut Butter sandwiches, he really is the PB to my J. – We went without cable for 6 months. . .just to see what it was like (sorry couldn’t give up the internet, it’s our crack) – we can appreciate some well thought out humor, but nothing makes us laugh more than a fart joke, I just love being with someone who can see the value of acting like you’re ten as much as I do. – His eyes are green, except for when he is around me, then they turn blue.
Rob and I had our first date less than eight months ago! We met online–which both of us were semi-forced to do through family and friends. After our second date we both knew that this was going to be something truly special! Our relationship blossomed pretty quickly after that. We started exclusively dating. Within months our friends were talking about an engagement–but to me it seemed so crazy! We had just met–and therefore just started dating! We had made plans to travel to South Africa and Zimbabwe together this summer for a friend’s wedding and I assumed that’s where Rob would pop the question. I can’t imagine a more romantic backdrop than Victoria Falls! However, Rob was so excited to propose that he couldn’t wait until the end of our summer. When we were on a beach vacation with his family, Rob proposed at sunset during and evening walk on the beach. I immediately said yes–and was so surprised that I tackled him in the sand!We’ve weathered so much together–from the seriously rough times of being apart because of the travel associated with my job and the hilarious rough times of adopting a black lab puppy together. I know every couple is unique and has a wonderful story to share. I hope the story of a southern girl from Kentucky marrying the man of her dreams–a northern man who lives for OSU will prove to be a unique story of a whirlwind romance!
My fiance and I are unique because after dating 5 1/2 years, he proposed to me in a candlelight proposal in the church where we first met. We have been dating since the summer before my junior year and before his senior year in high school. He had a slide show on the overhead screens that had pictures of all of the places we have traveled together and of all the major milestones in our relationship. He put out over 300 candles out that went down the aisles of the church to the front, forming a cross. He had "stations" set up to represent the different aspects of our time together with pictures, candles, and poems at each station. He met me that night at the front of the church, walked me through the different stations, then proposed to me at the station set up at the altar. After I said yes, he took me to a surprise engagement party where your families and friends had all assembled to celebrate with us. The whole evening was a total surprise. Because I have been involved in planning many events and weddings, he knew I would be amazed at the all of the details he planned for the proposal. It was a wonderful way to start an engagement and planning the wedding has been equally as much fun!
My fiance Bryan and I met 3 years ago, when he moved in next door. The first time he saw me I was riding on top of a mattress on top of my SUV. We have been crazy like that since then. We are numbers people. He is 2 years and 2 weeks older than I am. Bryan’s appartment number is 2 numbers from mine. We started dating on 08/08/08. We were engaged last Navember. He knelt down on one knee and asked me to marry him while I was on horseback.We are two completely different people. He grew up in the city and graduated with 500 people; I grew up on land and graduated with 90 people. He had never even seen a real horse before he met me, and I was riding before I could walk. We may be different in how we grew up, but we both have the same goals and dreams. I can not wait to marry him and have the reception on my parents land!
My fiance, Corey, and I met when I was a sophomore in high school. He was the "big man" on campus, you know, the football jock, and I was the shy girl that just sat at his lunch table. For me, it was definitely love at first sight. We stayed together the whole time I went through college and Nursing school. We surpassed many obstacles that many couples who we knew throughout high school and college just couldn't handle. I just graduated from George Mason Nursing school and am working as an RN at a top hospital in DC and Corey is working on his 4th year as a Fairfax County Firefighter. We are definitely a perfect team. And what more can you ask for? A nurse and a Firefighter. An awesome combination :)
Junior year of college, serving tables at Carrabba'sI saw dapper man, taking orders for bowls of pastaI introduced myself, and felt love at first sightBut I was in man clothes, ugly pants with a tie tied tightWhen I quit my job there, I never forgotThat first time feeling of, omg he's so hot!So at the first FSU game, of our Senior yearI saw my dream man, while sipping cheap beerI fell for him hard, and he also fell in love with meBut when I graduated college, I chose to move to MiamiAfter two and a half years of long distance, I look a leap of faithAnd moved to Fort Myers, to be with my soulmateJune of this year, while visiting family in HawaiiThis man of my dreams, flew out to surprise meAt sunset one night he dropped to one kneePulled out a ring, and said will you marry meWe're really no different, since everyone's uniqueWe just have a fun love story, and winning this would make my week!
We will be the first ones out of our group of friends to get married, who says age matters when it comes to love! :)
My fiance are totally about the fun. We're even hiring an ice cream truck for the guests after the wedding ceremony!! :) These invitations would be perfect for us so everyone can be excited for our one of a kind wedding!
We are different we plan to move to different countries together- at least England, New Zealand, and the US for a varying amounts of time. I'm American and he's English and we will eventually gain both citizenships in addition to traveling the world together.